I consult businesses with Internet marketing guidance. Aiding companies with the expansion of their branding, visibility, and customer experiences online through a variety of strategies. I build and optimize many profitable websites, some of which hold first page rankings for major keywords in Google. I have experience with writing branded content for search. I also specialize in identifying and capturing profitable niches across a wide variety of subject matters. Generally helping companies 'ring the cash register' online. I lead our data-driven SEO team providing strategy, overseeing processes, providing training and testing the latest SEO strategies to improve conversion and revenue for all of our clients.

Good article, I think looking at competitors is useful, but that is not the only way to aquire links. I think you need use your own creativity in finding relevant places to your industry get links from.

If you want be a full service agency and handle large corporate clients in New York then you need be well versed in all these things. As to the argument that some of these things are a separate job on their own like community management, that could be true. but nothing stays constant.

Nice Paul, really long and informative blog. Thanks. I have looked at reverse image feature in Google but not for getting a link. Isn't better to but your logo or brand name in your image like in an infographic, so if they do use it you get some mention.

Wow nice list, just found this blog 2 years later. Checked your website Weip nice. You have a nice writing flow. Another way to get .org or .edu links is to design or redesign their website. We designed the Santa Cruz film Festival's site last year, which is a non profit .org http://vabulous.com/website-development/portfolio/ This gives us a lot of traffic and link juice. Thanks for the post again.

Great article, i think google web master posted a lot of theses questions before. Some of these questions are kind of vague. You could compare this to the mortgage industry crackdown on bad brokers pedaling subprime loans. It will hurt some people but makes the rest improve and go back thinking more. thanks

Great post Cyrus, I think that if we worry about only getting do follow links and not having any nofollow that would seem unnatural to google and other search engines. Like your trying to game the system.

Good article i starting playing with yesterday. Google was saying that you could use this to check if anyone is stealing your image or graphic you may created. These other applications are clever as well. Thanks for posting.

Wow this site has so many interesting comments. I agree I think the key is writing interesting and unique content. Google seems to be dominating the conversation a little to much. Remember google says that we should to keep in mind what our readers or visitors are looking for rather than worrying about the search engines because they are not your customer.

Google- Even though this guide's title contains the words "search engine",

we'd like to say that you should base your optimization decisions first

and foremost on what's best for the visitors of your site. They're the

main consumers of your content and are using search engines to find

your work. Focusing too hard on specific tweaks to gain ranking in the

organic results of search engines may not deliver the desired results.